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For those who are unfamiliar, the original NES Metroid was one of many NES games to use passwords as a means to save progress.
Later, this password system was leveraged to create unusual effects in ...
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Once pipelined CPUs became common, a common issue arrived as a result of taking the wrong branch of a conditional jump, and thus needing to flush the pipeline. As a result branch prediction mechanisms ...
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In modern C, you may place variable declarations between statements:
do_something();
int x;
x = something_else();
However, older C compilers required that variables are declared before all statements:...
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I know that BIOS is obsolete, hence why I'm asking here :-) BIOS needed to do things like start loading the OS, for which it (usually?) would have needed things like a hard disk driver.
However, BIOS ...
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I was reading this question, and it sparked an old memory. I had an Amiga 600 a long time ago. And I used to play Secrets of Monkey Island on it, great game. But then I upgraded the computer and ...
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I'm writing a hobby OS and the first thing I want to do is access PS/2 devices (it's a somewhat legacy, 32 bit OS, so I figured it's relevant to ask here?).
I can see my PS/2 devices and I want to ...
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I've been working on the NatSemi PACE article and I'm trying to track down a bit of trivia... someone inserted a statement:
McDonnell Douglas produced a classified military 16-bit processor called ...
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"Pretty Home Page" is not found in official PHP history. But I saw several people call PHP that way on the internet, and even in some books, teaching & publications:
An Experimental ...
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I've been watching "speedrunners" play those games for quite some time. I still can't believe what my eyes are seeing. Somehow, they have managed to find bizarre bugs in the games which ...
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Game Boy games used a battery-backed SRAM module for their save states. Since the SRAM module retains its whole content, why do Game Boy games always need a manual save operation?
Wouldn't it be much ...
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In an IBM service bureau in the early 1960’s all data was keyed twice. The first time the holes were punched into cards. The 2nd time a verifier checked that the correct holes had been punched. ...
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I'm curious, what was the first book, about programming for digital computers.
I tried to google it, but it led me to multiple results.
I'm mostly interested in the language it was about and the ...
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Today there are adapters available allowing you to connect historic floppy drives to a modern PC. This allows you to copy data from historic floppy disks to the PC.
In the late 1980s and the early ...
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When a Nintendo Game Boy is turned on, it displays a logo read from the cartridge (looking like this) before starting the game. What does it display if there's no cartridge inserted from which to read ...
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Can you answer these questions?
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I'm putting together an article on TPC-C, and while chasing down leads its primary author mentioned the RdbStar project at DEC.
As he described it, the manager of DEC's storage department (Jim Grey? ...
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I've come to understand that Intuition, the GUI framework on the stock A500 has 4 types of gadgets:
'boolean' - checkboxes and buttons
'Proportional' - sliders
string inputs
integer inputs
I'm ...
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The Intel 80386 CPU didn't have an on-board x87 FPU (maybe with the exception of some non-Intel clones). It was, however, able to use either a 80287 or 80387 as an external FPU. When the x87 FPU ...
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